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shelter@peg.apc.org (Madhudvisah dasa Swami) writes:

> Actually it's all about the theory you accept... I have heard a story that
> many years ago some farmers came into town to report some extraordinary
> events that had occurred on their farms. They reported there were rocks
> falling from the sky! So the scientists naturally thought the poor fellows
> were crazy... How could rocks fall from the sky. It was only when they had
> a valid scientific theory [these rocks were, of course, the result of
> volcanic erruptions on the moon!] that they could accept the farmers
> stories... Of course we now call rocks falling from the sky meteorites and
> there is no problem.

It isn't just scientists, though! I lived in Germany for two years, and I
remember explaining to someone what an electric kettle is, and for what it
is used. The startling response (from several people in the room) was that
there is no such thing (not available in Germany at the time)! The obvious
implication being that I was lying about the possibility of such a device!

Don't worry about the negative response to your post. Most people wouldn't
recognise an irony unless it fell off the ironying board.

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